Correctly cover a cough, sneeze

What travels 6 feet at up to 50 mph and carries around 200 million particles? A cough and a sneeze.

When you do not cover your cough or sneeze, you can infect anyone within the room you are in with virus particles, and the same for anyone that comes into that room; virus particles can last up to three hours on a surface.

The best prevention for passing along your virus is to cover your cough or sneeze with the inner crook of your arm. If you can't get it close enough to your face, use your other hand to push the arm close to your face. Coughing into your hand may seem like the correct thing to do, but when you then touch counters, doors, elevator buttons, menus, essentially any common item, the next person to touch that surface may then become infected.

If we all try to be diligent and teach our children the proper way to cough or sneeze, we might prevent the spread of the miserable viruses that so enjoy us as their hosts.

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Correctly cover a cough, sneeze

What travels 6 feet at up to 50 mph and carries around 200 million particles? A cough and a sneeze.